A. Elizabeth Jones

Background

A. Elizabeth Jones serves as an Executive Vice President of APCO Worldwide. Ambassador Jones handles international advocacy and strategic counsel at APCO clients and leads the Washington firm's Business Diplomacy practice. She has extensive international experience in Europe, Eurasia, South Asia and the Middle East. She served for 35 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, where she achieved the highest rank of Career Ambassador. As an Assistant Secretary of Europe and Eurasia ... at U.S. Department of State, Ambassador Jones designed U.S. policies at NATO and European Union countries, Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia. She supervised 54 U. S. Ambassadors and their embassies. She held numerous other high-ranking government positions including: U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at Near East Bureau; Senior Advisor for Caspian Energy Diplomacy, Executive Assistant to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Deputy Chief of Mission of U.S. Embassy, Bonn, Germany; and Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan. Her other overseas assignments included Kabul, Cairo, Beirut, Tunis, Amman, Baghdad, and Berlin. She serves as a Trustee of CNA Analysis & Solutions. She speaks Russian and German and has retained a basic knowledge of Arabic. Ambassador Jones received her Master of Arts in International Relations, Strategic Studies from Boston University's Berlin Campus and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Swarthmore College.

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